New Beauvoir Family, Seeking Advice, Along the Lines of "I wish I had known X" When First Starting
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Anonymous
LOL, so TRUE! My DS enjoyed his years at Beauvoir. Lovely school. Was our bridge into STA and I'm not ashamed to admit it. |
Anonymous
Great! Then I'll feel right at home. -8:48 poster |
Anonymous
Sorry, but St. Alban's faculty putting their children at St. Patrick's is no myth. It's a fact. There are also former Beauvoir teachers who send their children to St. Patrick's. |
Anonymous
Your comments are just absurd, everytime you make them. And you continue to make them. What you should understand is that it doesn't matter whether your story is fact or myth. This doesn't speak volumes at all. We chose Beauvoir one child and another school for another child. We never applied to St. Patrick's after learning about it. I'm no academic and don't think it takes one to validate or justify school choice, but I have a handle on the education environment in DC and chose schools based on best fit for my children. Doesn't speak volumes about Beauvoir or the other school that we chose. Doesn't speak volumes about the schools of a few other families we know who have made different choices for kids in the same family. |
Anonymous
I am the person who wrote this. No, our family was not rejected from Beauvoir. In fact, I had never even HEARD of Beauvoir before I started fooling around on DCUM about a year or so ago. (Contrary to some posters' thoughts, Beauvoir is not widely acknowledged throughout the entire solor system as the finest private school on earth.) Why did I write this? Because I think it's fun to rile people up on DCUM over silly little things, and nothing, and I mean nothing, accomplishes that like posting a statement like this about "B." (And the reason this always works is that there is an element of truth to the statement.) |
Anonymous
What's so absurd? All I wrote was that it's not a myth that some St. Alban's faculty and former Beauvoir faculty send their children to St. Patrick's. I didn't say it speaks volumes. Where did I write that? I just stated two facts in response to someone else's post. I'm glad you have such a handle on the "education environment" in DC. Can I hire you as my educational consultant? |
Anonymous
| PP, read carefully. The post was in reference to 8:42's comments. |
Anonymous
Who cares!? This has nothing to do with this thread. Why don't you start a "Why Beauvoir isn't as good as St. Pat's thread" then post all of your comments there b/c clearly that is the goal of every one of your posts. Why must you find the need to constantly compare St. Pat's and Beauvoir? It is like comparing Harvard and Tufts. Both great schools but Tufts is no Harvard just as St. Pat's is no Beauvoir. Different leagues different schools. It doesn't have to mean that St. Pat's isn't a great school. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like YOU'RE the one who should be starting the new post- in your case entitled "Why Beauvoir is better than St. Pats." You ask why a PP needs to constantly compare the two schools with B coming out unfavorably, then you go on to do the same thing, but with St. Pats coming out less favorably. Talk about the height of hypocrisy. |
Anonymous
I am not the one going onto threads directed at Beauvoir parents and stating all of my negative thoughts like you are. You are the one that began comparing St. Pats and B which is why I finally had to say it how it is which is that they aren't even in the same league. I think St. Pat's is a great school but I am just stating the obvious, which is what I have been told by ALL of the educational consultants which is that they are not in the same league/tier. I was told this before I even applied to any schools obviously so I can't see why they would all be lying. |
Anonymous
Did you apply or do you mean to say your child? What cracks me up is all these parents so caught up with this - it's your child going to the school...not you... |
Anonymous
| My advice to future Beauvoir families: Don't read DCUM. |
Anonymous
| 19:17 here. Just to clarify, I did not start the initial comparison between St. Pats and Beauvoir. I am not a St. Pats parent, nor a Beauvoir parent. My kids are at Maret, and so clearly I do not have a stake in the game. When we applied to schools, we did not apply to either St. Pats or Beauvoir, as we were looking for a different setting for my kids. However, I was told by the ED we consulted, that the schools were very competetive with each other, and seemed so when we toured them both. I just can't understand why parents of children at B seem so threatened by any comparisons made between them and St. Pats. The bottom line is that they are both wonderful schools. Its quite unbecoming of Beauvoir parents to continue to insist that their child's school is so far superior to St. Pats, and what seems like every other private school in DC. |
Anonymous
And you need to get a life. Seriously, you are the abomination of desolation. People come here for advice, to be part of a community, or other good reasons. Not because we have anonymity to freely insult others. While most of us are "big girls" and can take insults, your random insults force every single one of us to wade through your pointless posts and the outraged reactions -- all a COMPLETE waste of time. Thanks for nothing. |
Anonymous
My child's FSIQ was lower than 95% and she got into Beauvoir and three other VERY good schools |